Friday, 11 November 2016

Study examines effectiveness of probation program

(Wiley) Within the criminal justice community, an approach to community supervision known as Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) has generated widespread enthusiasm and praise as a way to reduce substance use, violations, new arrests, and revocations to prison, while also leading to significant cost savings for local justice systems. A new study casts doubts on the benefits of HOPE over probation as usual, however.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2eJV39L

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